[tz] Rename Ukrainian cities to their official transliterated names

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Oct 5 15:50:09 UTC 2018


On 10/4/18 9:58 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> we should perhaps also emphasize that a UI should*not*  treat the name that happens to be used in a tzdb region ID as*the*  city to offer - it should offer other cities as well - to handle the "please pick a different city so people in {San Francisco, Beijing, ...} won't have to select {Los Angeles, Shanghai, ...}" problem.

I drafted the attached that does something along those lines. It 
deliberately sticks to the Uzhhorod/Uzhgorod example instead of 
better-known disputes like Kyiv/Kiev, Beijing/Shanghai, and San 
Francisco/Los Angeles (don't get me started!), to try to lessen the 
number of readers that might be offended. It also mentions using a map, 
which is out of our scope and also can rile users (ask Microsoft about 
the India-Pakistan border...) but we might as well mention geolocation 
while we're in the neighborhood, so to speak.

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